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them to individuals at moderate rents. There is a very inter- 

 esting garden of this description at Strasburg, which contains 

 a splendid music-room, that serves occasionally as a ball-room, 

 and as a room for holding public meetings. There is also a 

 large orangery, the trees of w^hich are set out on the lawn in the 

 summer season, and surrounded by tables and chairs for com- 

 pany. In the neighbourhood of Berlin, and also in Warsaw, 

 there are, or were formerly, orangeries furnished with tables, 

 seats, &c., in which entertainments of various kinds were given 

 in the evenings, and where refreshments might be obtained at 

 all hours of the day during the winter season, the orangery 

 being kept heated to a proper temperature. 



Archery grounds, cricket grounds, bowling greens, and grounds 

 for playing at golf, skittles, quoits, &c., may be considered as 

 useful establishments, with a view to the health of citizens who 

 pass the day in sedentary occupations. Like fac-simile imita- 

 tions of nature, they may be executed by labourers under the 

 direction of an architect, with little or no assistance from a 

 landscape-gardener. 



GARDENS FOR BURIAL. 



Cemeteries are entitled to be considered as gardens, because in 

 almost all ages and countries trees have been planted in them. So 

 generally is this the case on the continent of Europe, that some 

 of the nurserymen (as we have seen in Vol. X. p. 149.) have a list 

 of plants in their catalogues proper for ornamenting graves and 

 churchyards. It seems to us that no mode of burial is so natural 

 as that of being interred among trees ; and this also appears to 

 have been the opinion of Abraham, who, when his wife Sarah 

 died, declined the offer made to him of the choice of any of the 

 sepulchres of Heth, but preferred purchasing from them for that 

 purpose *' a field, a plot with trees in it;" or, as some comment- 

 ators say, " with trees bordering it." The proximity of trees 

 to a grave seems to offer a greater security that it shall not be 

 disturbed, than if the grave were made in an open field, or in 

 any place liable to cultivation ; and as the idea of the dead being 

 disturbed in the grave is repugnant to the human mind, this, 

 perhaps, may instinctively have led to the practice of burying 

 among trees. 



The situation made choice of for a cemetery should be ele- 

 vated and airy, and the soil deep and dry ; because the first two 

 conditions will prevent mephitic vapours from lodging on the 

 surface, and the last two will contribute to secure inhumation 

 and rapid decomposition. The walks in a cemetery, it ap- 

 pears to us, ought to be straight, or, if curvilinear, the curves 

 ought to be few ; because there is neither solemnity nor grandeur 

 where there is a great play of outline, and continued variation of 



